MAPACTION

Registered charity 1126727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AID FOR AID

MapAction is a humanitarian mapping charity that works through skilled volunteers. Its aim is to save lives and minimise suffering by making the response to humanitarian emergencies as efficient and effective as possible.When a disaster strikes, MapAction deploys volunteer mapping professionals to the scene to help coordinate the response and get aid to where it is needed most.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.8m

Latest spending

£2.0m

Registered

2008

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an unrestricted deficit of £180,210 in 2024, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £283,120. The trustees concluded that measures should be taken to significantly reduce the cost-base, leading to headcount reductions, and noted that the charity relies heavily on general funds due to uncertainties in the fundraising landscape. Despite these challenges, the trustees and auditors confirmed there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Consultancy fees of £6,800 were paid to CIJ Holdings Ltd, a company directed by Trustee Christopher Jarvis, for work on an anti-malaria programme.

“During the year consultancy fees were paid to 1 Trustee of the Charity (2023: 2 Trustees). Consultancy fees totalling £6800 were paid to CIJ Holdings Ltd for work undertaken to deliver an anti-malaria programme in South Sudan and Burundi, funded by the Calleva Foundation. Christopher Jarvis, a trustee of the Charity is a director of CIJ Holdings Ltd.” — page 40

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Consultancy fees paid to a trustee's company

“During the year consultancy fees were paid to 1 Trustee of the Charity (2023: 2 Trustees). Consultancy fees totalling £6800 were paid to CIJ Holdings Ltd for work undertaken to deliver an anti-malaria programme in South Sudan and Burundi, funded by the Calleva Foundation. Christopher Jarvis, a trustee of the Charity is a director of CIJ Holdings Ltd.” — page 40

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MapAction (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Darren Dovey — CEO (source)
Marina Kobzeva — Director of Impact and Locally-Led Practice (source)
Ian Davis — Director of Income (source)
Daniel Soares — Director of GIS & Data Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

German Federal Foreign Office — “Our institutional donors include: German Federal Foreign Office” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£1.8m

Total spending

£2.0m

Cost of raising funds

£126k

Reserves (reported)

£283k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Nicholas Moodychair
Agata Bangs · trustee of 1 other charity
Catalina Jaime
Catherine Rosemary Frances Seale
Dr Christopher Ian Jarvis
Emma Louise Underwood
Frederick Powys Broke Carver
Steven James Harper · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Argentina · Bolivia · Cameroon · Chile · China · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Costa Rica · Ecuador · Estonia · Fiji · France

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.8m	£2.0m
31/12/2023	£1.6m	£1.9m
31/12/2022	£1.8m	£1.7m
31/12/2021	£1.7m	£1.5m
31/12/2020	£1.2m	£1.1m

Common questions

Is MAPACTION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred an unrestricted deficit of £180,210 in 2024, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £283,120. The trustees concluded that measures should be taken to significantly reduce the cost-base, leading to headcount reductions, and noted that the charity relies heavily on general funds due to uncertainties in the fundraising landscape. Despite these challenges, the trustees and auditors confirmed there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited.

Who funds MAPACTION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MAPACTION as a grant recipient include THE CALLEVA FOUNDATION, THE DULVERTON TRUST, THE LENNOX HANNAY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HARAMEAD TRUST, LANGDALE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE CALLEVA FOUNDATION	FY2022	£331k	International Relief
THE CALLEVA FOUNDATION	FY2024	£170k	International Relief
THE CALLEVA FOUNDATION	FY2023	£100k	International Relief
THE DULVERTON TRUST	FY2026	£40k	Myanmar Earthquake Response 2025
THE LENNOX HANNAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£10k	The advancement of citizenship or community development
THE HARAMEAD TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE HARAMEAD TRUST	FY2023	£10k
LANGDALE TRUST	FY2022	£4k
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k	Charitable Donation
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Charitable Donation
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k	Charitable Donation
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k	Charitable Donation
OVE ARUP PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£715
OVE ARUP PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£0

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	2	£309k
G M C TRUST	2	£10k
THE OAKDALE TRUST	2	£8k
THE JENOUR FOUNDATION	1	—
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2.9m
Frontline AIDS	1	£943k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£420k
PEGASUS	1	£400k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS.

MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS income £56.6m
VOLUNTEER ACTION income £225k
ACTIONAID income £47.6m
ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES (UK) income £141k
REMAP 2010 income £338k
BBC MEDIA ACTION income £32.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MAPACTION	£1.8m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS FY2024	£56.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
VOLUNTEER ACTION FY2025	£225k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ACTIONAID FY2025	£47.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ACTION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES (UK) FY2025	£141k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
REMAP 2010 FY2025	£338k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.